The Influence of Pilgrimage Routes on Local Culture and Imagination: the “Italian Compostela” as a case study
In the middle of the 12th century Pistoia achieved an important relic of Saint James the Greater from Santiago de Compostela, becoming in a short time the most important Italian landmark for the worship of the Saint. As a consequence, the Tuscan city, placed near the Francigena route, became also an...
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University of Bologna
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Almatourism |
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| Online Access: | https://almatourism.unibo.it/article/view/7263 |